Rectilinear Motion

Kinematics tells about how the motion of particle is. Motion taking a straight line path is what's known as rectilinear motion is!. Its same as the curvilinear motion but does not have the curves or turns in its path. In short its a linear motion whose velocity will be the same in straight line path. Lets see more about this.

Rectilinear motion of a car

Rectilinear Motion Equations

A particle starts motion in a straight line from point O having initial velocity u with a constant acceleration a. Let s be the distance traveled by particle to reach point P in time t. At the point where it covers distance s the final velocity is v.